San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

Waco will erect merchants ex
change building.
Grave dissertation is arousing the
citizens Of Bryan.
The Santa Fe officials are inspecting
the line of the road.
A sweeping Methodist revival is
spreading all through SaxOny.
Matters are quieting in Alsace- Lor-
raine, and few arrests are made.
Steamer Empire State, burned at her
dock, at Bristol. Loss, 100000.
The agitation has begun In England
for penny post to all the provinces.
O'Brien will insist on his right to
speak at Toronto and also at Ottawa.
The Ottawa roller rink has been en-
gagged for O'Brlen's Thursday address.
The Mexican National contracts with
Louisiana parties for 100000 pine ties.
Prince Leopold and suite have gone
home TO their mothers and sweethearts.
Fine rains are reported as falling all
over southern and southwestern Texas.
New Orleans sells excursion tickets to
Washington for the big drill for $I7.20.
Cotton oaterpillars in the Pedee, S.
De
Regular business of the interstate
commission resumed at Washington to-
day.
Annie Sweet, OF Crockett, charges her
father with outrage. She is only 10 years
old.
The Anti.O'Brien meeting, in Toron-
to, was purely a church of England af-
fair.
The German bill raising the duties on
corn and wool will antagOnTze the Rus
SLAMS.
The cabinet crisis in France interests
Germany, which fears Ferry-Freycinet
ministry.
A Leipsic bookseller has been tried
and acquitted for exposing for sale 70
las Mana"
Pensacola postoffice gets into Uncle
Sans new building. Quarantine station
is in full blast.
The American sailors on the lakes are
organizing 10 prevent the influx OF non
union foreigners.
Brentwood proposes to test the ex-
tent and quality of the petroleum de-
posts in that region.
The new scale OF the Pittsburg ANAL
gamated iron and steel workers is prac-
tically that OF lSS3-SI.
The sugar tax bill, which passed the
bundesrath last week, will come up In
the reichstag this week.
The l.. and o. railway extends an in
wife to the Alabama press association to
visit the mammoth cave.
Mail driver between Arson and Has
kell, Texas, loses his team and mail by
an upset In Cali Ornia creek.
Green wall has booked Booth, Barrett,
Joe Jefferson, Mrs. Bowers, Fred Warde
and Emma Abbott for Galveston next
season.
woody" the American champion
bicyclist was beaten 40 feet in 20-mile
race in England, in the fast time of one
hour and forty minutes.
Granville Powell, of Willis, was shot
(fatally) by negro whom he requested
10 step out of the car door that he
(PowelD might pass with some ladies'.
0'Brien's denunciation OF Lands
dOwne will prevent the governOr-gen-
eral from spending his usual summer va
cation at the Quebec citadel. The feel
Ing in the city is so bitter against him.
A number OF sharpshooters out in the
country for rifle practice purchased
washtub, for target, from a farmer
They paid good price for it, and after
shooting until weary and out Of ammu-
milton, went away and left the tub in
tact. The farmer secured 1t for the
next party Of crack shots who might
come along.
The democracy are feeling the force
Of the conviction slowly creeping
through their hair, that they cannot
champion free trade and retain the sup
port OF all their ablest and most influen-
tial men. To champion free trade means
to champion a division Of the solid south
also. What will the harvest be?